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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaekk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Key Points * In the aftermath of the pancdemic. a wave of parental activism has led to the election of new school board members with a mandate for change. l-owever, once eected, new school board members [requen' y struggle to find alter- native policy proposals that speak to their concerns and priorities, ne ecucaton reform movement must equip these new school board members with a drverse assortment of model policies that can spark more inorrned loc:l deliberation and decision-making, The pandemic and its impact on school children resulted in a national awT cing of parents and tax- payers. Rather than sit back and trust the experts, parents across Aun ica samted speaking up at scnool board mcet ngs and, more imortantily, running for school board. rom Virginia to Texas to Wisconsin, parents have successfully ru for and flipped many school boards3 But once these parents are on the school board, what should they do next? Unfortunately, they have few rcady-nade resources to convert their popular mandate into neaningful policy change. As new school board members take office, the main resource they encounter is policies prepared by state school board associations. These associations are not ideologically neutral. About half are still associ ated with the National School Boards Association, which issued an. infamous letter asking she Biden administration to investigate discontent parents as though they were domestic terrorists?- If new school board members don't have the resources at their disposal, they could squander the opportunity for meaningful change. While many interesting and constuctive suggestions for state-level policy changes have surfaced in the past year, policy energy must not be focused exclusively at the state level. Conservatives ust iranslate from the state level-----or create-a robust suite of district-level policies to cmpower local leaders with the resources and ability to drive change in their own schools. In June 2022, the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liber 'ty WIL cOntib utcd 14 model school board policies with our Restoring American Education project, which we hope is only the beginning f a broader, nulti-institutional endea- vor Some of these policies are local adaptations of state-level proposals. Others conern details best left to local officials. None are intended as the final conservativ( word or any topic-but rather as the start o a broader project of better equipping local leaders. Here are three key policy examples.

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